Background Information

Strategy

They run perpendicular to their opponents with variations on Random Movement.

Version _S varies the probablity that it will flip orbit directions inversely to its distance from the opponent (like many good Random Movement 1v1 bots). It first runs Stop And Go movement a laSplinter, which is really the key to its rank (and the key to Splinter's rank). That is, it runs stop-and-go movement until it sees that isn't working anymore, then it switches to the random movement.

Version _S is pretty much done. Maybe some small tuner variable tweaks from time to time.

Version _Melee ... we'll wait to see how much potential it has.

What other robot(s) is it based on?

I learned a lot about nano-sizing a pattern matcher from the pattern matchers in the top 10 of the NanoRumble. Apparently they all learned a lot from FunkyChicken. Splinter gets all the credit the Stop And Go movement. Basically, the S stands for Splinter (but I felt safe naming it that because I could say it meant "Stop-and-Go").